Maybe I get more impressed by the Dante technology than I should but I find it super cool that I can patch any outgoing signal in our studios or lecture halls into this Dante headphone amp and monitor them live in my office, without ever leaving my chair.

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Sun, 26 Nov 2017 13:06:52 +0000http://blog.henrikcarlsson.se/?p=9595@colinwalker This is an interesting coincident. My streak has been far, far shorter than yours but I was hoping to at least keep it up for a few more days to earn the Daily Blogger pin on Micro.blog. However yesterday I didn’t get around to post.

I was thinking about it multiple times during the day. I even knew what to post but due to the things we were doing in the family yesterday, which was also going to be the subject of the post, I never posted anything.

This morning when I realized that I’d broken the streak I actually posted the photo that I was supposed to post yesterday and tried to set its date to late yesterday, when I had intended to do it. It worked for the blog but Micro.blog still (correctly) registered it as a post from today. Initially it bummed me out but then I read your post and realized that the streak is not that big of a deal and then I changed the date of the post again to be the actual posting date, not the intended date.

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Tue, 21 Nov 2017 22:33:44 +0000http://blog.henrikcarlsson.se/?p=9579Tonight I’m packing for a conference about the music business and I’ll be in Stockholm for two days. That means I’ll have my first night away from Ebbe tomorrow. That will feel strange.
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Mon, 20 Nov 2017 21:58:27 +0000http://blog.henrikcarlsson.se/?p=9575Started watching Better Things yesterday. Seems like a fun show. It’s always great to have one of those ”half hour” shows to watch with Linn, in addition to any other longer show we might be watching or that I might be watching by myself.
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http://blog.henrikcarlsson.se/2017/11/9572/#commentsSun, 19 Nov 2017 07:23:32 +0000http://blog.henrikcarlsson.se/?p=9572I enjoy the second season of Stranger Things a whole lot less than the first one. Not sure if it is because it actually is a worse season, or because my standards tv shows have been raised by West World and Twin Peaks this year, or because it was a novelty that just worked once.
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http://blog.henrikcarlsson.se/2017/11/9565/#commentsSat, 18 Nov 2017 09:00:14 +0000http://blog.henrikcarlsson.se/?p=9565@jeremycherfas I agree that the main thing that Twitter and Facebook are good for are marketing, but I disagree that my example is an example of marketing.

Sending out a tweet when a podcast starts live streaming or when a new episode is posted makes sense. It helps a lot of people noticing. But telling the listeners of the show that the best way to contact the hosts is via Twitter seems less true. e-mail, a Slack channel or subreddit would work just as well.

I think that especially if a more or less recurring segment on a show is complaining about how twitter is a toxic hell stew that more or less enabled Donald Trump, a person that the hosts paints out to be more or less Lucifer himself, to get elected as POTUS then the hosts really, really should reconsider whether they want to funnel more communication through twitter and thereby helping the service continue on.

I’ve been at home with Ebbe for most of today and he’s been quite cranky so I haven’t had much time to think about today’s photo. Just as I was heading for bed I looked around and as I was about to give up I encountered a familiar shadow.

I had originally planned to make a similar photo with a mixing console that I introduced to my students today but time ran out and I needed to get home before the kids bedtime so this was the closest thing I could find in my office.

Two parts gin, one and a half part Cointreau and one part freshly squeezed lemon juice. Shake until freezing cold and you’ve made yourself a White Lady, a truly tasty cocktail.

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Sun, 12 Nov 2017 13:17:38 +0000http://blog.henrikcarlsson.se/?p=9537Speaking of Twin Peaks: The Return, that is a show that I just can’t get out of my head. I think about it almost everyday, trying to make sense of it.

I don’t think it’s the best tv show ever but certainly one of the most memorable.

I pass this wire pole almost everyday when I’m walking with Ebbe for his nap and I’m fascinated by how it looks. There something about it that reminds me of Twin Peaks: The Return.

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http://blog.henrikcarlsson.se/2017/11/9532/#commentsSat, 11 Nov 2017 19:53:48 +0000http://blog.henrikcarlsson.se/?p=9532Turns out the problem with webmentions was due to my new VPS not having the mb_string extension for php installed and that caused the semantic linkbacks plugin to fail which in turn caused the webmentions plugin to do as well.
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Sat, 11 Nov 2017 14:49:38 +0000http://blog.henrikcarlsson.se/?p=9530

The only squares I’ve spent much time with today are the square keys of my MacBook Pro as I’m trying to figure out why my blog suddenly refuses to receive webmentions.

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http://blog.henrikcarlsson.se/2017/11/9520/#commentsSat, 11 Nov 2017 09:51:01 +0000http://blog.henrikcarlsson.se/?p=9520It seems like my site has lost the ability to receive webmentions since I moved it to my VPS. I wonder that the F is going on…
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Fri, 10 Nov 2017 22:37:32 +0000http://blog.henrikcarlsson.se/?p=9518I just watched a Kurzgesagt video on how far we’ll ever be able to reach into the universe. I didn’t know and had never thought about the things in the video. Not only are we limited in how far we’ll ever be able to reach in the universe as a species, as time moves on the rest of the universe won’t even be observable from our corner of it.

Even thought I, and anyone who’s likely to read this, will be long gone before this will matter it still made me feel melancholic. I guess sometimes I just don’t want to be reminded about the fact that everything will eventually end. Not just me and everyone I’ll ever known, will know or interact with, but every living thing – the universe itself – will eventually and.

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Thu, 09 Nov 2017 21:29:59 +0000http://blog.henrikcarlsson.se/?p=9490Doug Lane has a fun idea for an informal photo challenge on Micro.blog. I love the idea of something that makes me post more photos on the blog/Micro.blog, so I’m definitely in.

I’ll tag my photos as snapshots and maybe even some special challenge tag, but I’ll get back to you on that.

Here’s the themes for the photos:

Day 1 (Sat): “Squares”

Day 2 (Sun): “Tasty”

Day 3 (Mon): “On the Move”

Day 4 (Tue): “Up Close”

Day 5 (Wed): “Liquid”

Day 6 (Thu): “Seasonal”

Day 7 (Fri): “Shadow”

]]>9490Allowing rewrite of permalinks on WordPresshttp://blog.henrikcarlsson.se/2017/11/allowing-rewrite-of-permalinks-on-wordpress/
Wed, 08 Nov 2017 07:53:24 +0000http://blog.henrikcarlsson.se/?p=9482Turns out the problem I was having with everything except the front page was due to permalink rewrites not working. It seems three things were incorrectly setup.

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Wed, 08 Nov 2017 06:11:00 +0000http://blog.henrikcarlsson.se/?p=9478It appears things only semi-work on the new server. All the backend stuff works and the front page works but no other page or feed does. Strange.
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Tue, 07 Nov 2017 23:18:25 +0000http://blog.henrikcarlsson.se/?p=9476Yep, the site is moved to the VPS now and it is indeed faster now than before.
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Tue, 07 Nov 2017 23:15:27 +0000http://blog.henrikcarlsson.se/?p=9473Holy smokes, it seems like it worked!

(This boring picture is mostly for testing purposes.)

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Tue, 07 Nov 2017 23:02:26 +0000http://blog.henrikcarlsson.se/?p=9471DNS records are now changed. Waiting for propagation and trying not to bite my nails.
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Tue, 07 Nov 2017 21:12:51 +0000http://blog.henrikcarlsson.se/?p=9469Also, I need to change my gravatar.
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Tue, 07 Nov 2017 20:57:08 +0000http://blog.henrikcarlsson.se/?p=9467I’ve been putting off moving my main site from a shared host to a VPS for what feels like an eternity. I know I got to do it because it’ll make the site a lot faster and thereby making blogging more enjoyable.

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Tue, 07 Nov 2017 08:22:50 +0000http://blog.henrikcarlsson.se/?p=9451As I’m moving away from Twitter, there are some things that have been locked in over there that I want to move over to my own blog. One such thing is a few screen shots from Breath of the Wild.

I still haven’t figured out a good way to ”Rube Goldberg” my tweets from the Switch to my blog. It’ll likely be something really low tech in the end.

Tingle

Hestu is the Bestu!

#Mansfrifestival

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Mon, 06 Nov 2017 22:23:18 +0000http://blog.henrikcarlsson.se/?p=9448I’m getting back into playing Breath of the Wild again. Yesterday I started searching for one of the last lost memories. I was sure I knew ruffly where it was so I looked around like crazy but couldn’t find it, so I had to give up.

Today I made another attempt, realized I was looking in the wrong place and also where I should look an low and behold, I found it! I thought about googling it multiple times when I got frustrated but now I’m so glad that I didn’t. The feeling of accomplishment was really intense when I found it.

I’ve known for quite some time that I need to cut down on my Twitter usage. Most of the time it doesn’t make me happy, doesn’t make me feel more closely connected with my friends and doesn’t make me feel like I’m caught up on the news. In fact, the only thing it does is make me feel angry and frustrated. It keeps me in this loop of outrage, disgust and the feeling of moral superiority that so many of us are a part of and help feed.

So I need to cut back on Twitter. I started a while ago, probably a year ago, by deleting Twitterrific from my phone and computer. I allowed myself to dip back into it from time to time using Twitters horrible web interface and for a few months I kept it casual. Then I reinstalled the app for a while, removed it when I realized that it started taking up too much time again but from that point on I haven’t been able to keep myself away from browsing via the web.

That is where I am right now. I mindlessly check Twitter whenever, wherever, and I always come across something that makes me feel bad or angry or sad or outraged.

With syndication off that would mean I would just be a passive spectator and that would hopefully feel like such a waste of time that I don’t even bother going there.

Cross your fingers for me!

If you don’t feel like this regarding Twitter, good for you! I’m not here to convince you to leave. Nor am I here for you to convince me that I’m wrong. ↩

The kids are with their grand parents so Linn and I are having our first lunch, just the two of us in forever. Glorious bento! ?

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Fri, 03 Nov 2017 18:56:04 +0000http://blog.henrikcarlsson.se/?p=9422Thank you for your reply, Daniel. I’m glad you commented on my description of the environment and situation I was in.
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Fri, 03 Nov 2017 18:50:16 +0000http://blog.henrikcarlsson.se/?p=9420Thank you for your reply, Chris. I’m glad you liked the idea and I agree on how powerful it would be if feed readers picked up the conversations. That kind of integration of post and replies is one of the benefits that the silos has today.

That’s a really cool example of displaying comments! I have added a line about you to the IndieWeb comments page, please edit if you have more to add about the displaying behaviour.

Thanks Martijn! It got the idea for this from the P2 theme. I tried it out a week or so ago to try to solve a different problem on my blog and while it didn’t help with its intended purpose, I did really like the inline comments.

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Mon, 30 Oct 2017 12:32:16 +0000http://blog.henrikcarlsson.se/?p=9412This thing that Google does where links in search results are actually to their own URLs and not the permalinks is just pure crap!
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Mon, 30 Oct 2017 08:26:33 +0000http://blog.henrikcarlsson.se/?p=9406I just saw a year old article about Pinterest buying Instapaper. I had completely missed that.

A few years ago I was an avid Instapaper user and I cared a lot about it and its future but as I had less and less time to read the stuff I put in my queue my interest decreased.

(While recording this I tried so hard to not say Make the Mac Great Again or something similar. In fact, I tried so hard that when I listen back to it its absence is so clear that I just have to make that the name of the episode.)

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Tue, 24 Oct 2017 21:15:35 +0000http://blog.henrikcarlsson.se/?p=9382I had planned to do a microcast per weekday now, but today there won’t be an episode. I’m just not in the mood for it, my brain is preoccupied with too many other things and I’m way too tired as well. Hopefully I’ll get back on schedule tomorrow.
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Tue, 24 Oct 2017 20:53:33 +0000http://blog.henrikcarlsson.se/?p=9380Henrik Carlsson
is 17% done with <a href="/book/show/11318933-revolvermannen">Revolvermannen</a>.
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Mon, 23 Oct 2017 06:57:28 +0000http://blog.henrikcarlsson.se/?p=9377

A JavaScript application randomizes note order from a list of allowed notes and pipes them to the Web MIDI Api They then enter Ableton Live which routes the MIDI to an E-Mu Proteus/2 that does the actual sound generating. The sound from the Proteus is then treated with delay, reverb and Valhalla Shimmer in Live.